American History

7. a policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world
11. Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
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14. a group of merchants or traders united in a trade guild
15. American financier and industrial organizer, one of the world’s foremost financial figures during the two pre-World War I decades. He reorganized several major railroads and financed industrial consolidations that formed the United States Steel, International Harvester, and General Electric corporations.
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18. founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist
21. souls of black folk
22. a person hired to replace a striking worker
23. the quality, qualities, traits, or outlook regarded as distinctive of the English or of the people of English descent
25. a member of a 19th century secret labor organization formed in 1869 to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen in respect to their relations to their employers

1. a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies
2. the principle or advocacy of political or commercial and cultural cooperation among all the countries of North and South America.
3. a company created to buy and possess the shares of other companies, which it then controls.
4. a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted
5. the withholding of employment by an employer and the whole or partial closing of the business establishment in order to gain concessions from or resist demands of employees
6. belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective
8. a farmer who works land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop
9. a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce
10. did the House of Representatives vote to impeach president Johnson? violation
13. an obligation placed on a farmer to repay a debt with crops
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19. was an American labor federation active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. It operated in the United States as well in Canada, and had chapters also in Great Britain and Australia
20. American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
24. exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action